Blaise

“If we attempt to examine the mirror in itself, we uncover, finally, nothing but the things upon it. If we want to seize hold of the things, we come up, in the end, with nothing but the mirror.— This is, in the most general terms, the history of knowledge.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“They encounter a sick man or an old man or a corpse, and immediately they say, 'Life is refuted.' But only they themselves are refuted, and their eyes, which see only this one face of existence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Now, to go out into the world and bear
The earth's whole pain and joy, all this I dare;
To fight with tempests anywhere,
And in the grinding shipwreck stand and not despair!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“You went alone. You were right beside those irreplacable things...yet you couldn't bear to immerse yourself together in sorrow with them. So instead...you ran away so that your own malice could burn within you.”
― Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 17